This is a comprehensive text on the methods - dietary, anthropometric, laboratory and clinical - of assessing the nutritional status of populations and of individuals in the hospital or the community. The second edition incorporates recent data from national nutritional surveys in the US and Europe; the flood of new information about iron, vitamin A and iodine; the role of folate in preventing neural tube defects; the use of HPLC techniques and enzyme assays; improvements in data handling; and many other developments since 1990.
PART 1: INTRODUCTION; PART 2: FOOD CONSUMPTION AT THE NATIONAL AND HOUSEHOLD LEVELS; PART 3: MEASURING FOOD CONSUMPTION OF INDIVIDUALS; PART 4: ASSESSMENT OF NUTRIENT INTAKES FROM FOOD CONSUMPTION DATA; PART 5: MEASUREMENT ERRORS IN DIETARY ASSESSMENT; PART 6: REPRODUCIBILITY IN DIETARY ASSESSMENT; PART 7: VALIDITY IN DIETARY ASSESSMENT METHODS; PART 8: EVALUATION OF NUTRIENT INTAKES AND DIETS; PART 9: ANTHROPOMETRIC ASSESSMENT; PART 10: ANTHROPOMETRIC ASSESSMENT OF BODY SIZE; PART 11: ANTHROPOMETRIC ASSESSMENT OF BODY COMPOSITION; PART 12: ANTHROPOMETRIC REFERENCE DATA; PART 13: EVALUATION OF ANTHROPOMETRIC INDICES; PART 14: LABORATORY ASSESSMENT OF BODY COMPOSITION; PART 15: LABORATORY ASSESSMENT; PART 16: ASSESSMENT OF PROTEIN STATUS; PART 17: ASSESSMENT OF IRON STATUS; PART 18: ASSESSMENT OF THE STATUS OF VITAMINS A, D AND E; PART 19: ASSESSMENT OF VITAMIN C STATUS; PART 20: ASSESSMENT OF THE STATUS OF THIAMIN, RIBOFLAVIN, AND NIACIN; PART 21: ASSESSMENT OF VITAMIN B6 STATUS; PART 22: ASSESSMENT OF FOLATE AND VITAMIN B12 STATUS; PART 23: ASSESSMENT OF CALCIUM, PHOSPHORUS AND MAGNESIUM STATUS; PART 24: ASSESSMENT OF CHRONIUM, COPPER AND ZINC STATUS; PART 25: ASSESSMENT OF IODINE AND SELENIUM STATUS; PART 26: CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; PART 27: NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT OF HOSPITAL PATIENTS
